Sentences with phrase «brain cell degeneration»
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«Such delusions prove that hanging around @MBuhari leads to diminishing returns in rational thinking and a total degeneration and drastic reduction of brain cells,» he wrote.
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He noted that it was unclear, for example, whether resveratrol affected the aging process in the kind of cells in the heart and brain that are particularly susceptible to degeneration with age.
«We now have a handle on the detailed structure of a complex web of interactions that causes global dysfunction in cells resulting in degeneration of the brain.»
Recent studies suggest that the total loss in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.
«Previous studies primarily focused on neurons and the retinal pigment epithelium cells as culprits in degeneration,» said Eroglu, who is also a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS).
A similar enzyme is impaired in ALD, leading to high blood levels of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) in patients and — for reasons poorly understood — progressive degeneration of brain cells.
«The most obvious function of glial cells has been related to their role in forming scar tissue to prevent the spread of injury and neuronal degeneration, but so much about their role in the brain is unknown.»
«Repetitive heading could set off a cascade of responses that leads to degeneration of brain cells over time,» noted Dr. Lipton.
These substances are both highly Poisonous to nerve cells, and so could cause the degeneration of brain tissue found in Alzheimer's patients.
DHA in brain and retinal cells also builds reservoirs for molecules called into action when normal functions are disrupted, resulting in such conditions as retinal degeneration, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease.
These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration.
In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.
To facilitate our pursuit for therapies, we invented a unique robotic microscope that tracks the development and degeneration of millions of individual brain cells in real time.
Corticobasal degeneration is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by nerve cell loss and atrophy (shrinkage) of various regions of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia (which helps to start and control movements, as well as other functions).
For this study, the newly generated, patient - derived neurons exhibited the same pattern of cell degeneration and death that occurs inside a patient's brain.
Our brains can atrophy — or waste away — as a result of the degeneration of cells, or due to underuse or neglect.
Some examples of the effects of the herbal tinctures are, protection of the immune system, to help combat the effects of stress, improved memory, learning, and reaction time, reduction of anxiety and depression (without causing drowsiness), stabilizing blood sugars, lowering cholesterol, reducing brain - cell degeneration, and aiding in treatment of inflammation.
Alzheimer's is not caused by damaged blood vessels, but by degeneration of brain cells's proteins.
Premature aging associated with chronic nervous tension is also related to increased oxidative stress, For example, in a remarkable animal study, examination of the brains of sacrificed animals showed that 85 % of the brain cells observed in the animals exposed to chronic stress showed signs of degeneration.
This speeds degeneration because energy - deprived brain cells die.
Osteonecrosis (bone cell death), retinal degeneration (eye cell death) & neural necrosis (brain cell death) are some of the examples.
If this area of the brain were injured, the clinical signs would be representative of more than a pure Purkinje cell degeneration.